title: [Influenza A virus infection, a precipitating factor for the major heart attack (author's transl)].
abstract: A report on 5 men aged from 53 to 75 years whose clinical symptoms were characterized by a major attack. There was a striking temporal relationship between the onset of this and an influenza infection which, in these 5 patients with chronic heart diseases led to a severe, and in the youngest patient, even to a fatal course. In an acute heart attack it seems rational to take into consideration an acute influenza virus infection as a precipitating factor in existing chronic heart disease and to institute virological studies.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Influenza-A-Virus-Infektion, ein präzipitierender Faktor für den grossen Herzanfall?